Academic Rights and Wrongs

Updated Oct. 7, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

We begin this week with a quiz. Imagine yourself as a freshman at State U. On the first day of class a professor walks in the door and says: "Hello, I'm Joe Schmoe, and I like sex with men. Christians hate gays, and the 'r' in Republican stands for 'racist.' We have too many Nazis running around on campus, and if you're a conservative you'll probably fail my course."